Inside The Ride

Saif Ali is a social entrepreneur from Iraq who spent 18 years as an asylum seeker. He's also an artist, a filmmaker, a photographer, a designer, an engineer and speaker. He founded Integr8 UK, a social enterprise based in South Devon that enables people of all cultures in the UK to connect and create a positive change in their own lives and the world. Saif's Instagram, Website & Ted Talk Integra8 UK's Website

Too Many T's are two UK based rappers who are breaking the mould with their bass heavy, golden era influenced, Hip Hop records. It was great to catch up with them just after they'd returned from a three month tour in Australia and Asia with some hilarious stories to share. Emil’s Website and Instagram Too Many T’s Website and Instagram

Angelique Pouponneau is an environmental lawyer, a legal expert in climate change, oceans and global commons and the CEO of Seyccat - an organisation based in the Seychelles that was set up to pioneer a groundbreaking $21.6m debt-for-nature swap that was completed in 2016 with the support of the US environmental organisation, The Nature Conservancy. Emil’s Website and Instagram Seyccat's Website

Perhaps even more interesting than Richard Eckersley's previous career as a professional footballer, is the fact that alongside his wife, he opened up the UK's first organic zero waste food shop called Earth.Food.Love. While playing football for Manchester United in front of 75,000 people was obviously a milestone for him, he finds his true passion in providing solutions for a zero-waste lifestyle to the locals of Totnes, Devon where his shop is based. Emil’s Website and Instagram Earth.Food.Love. Website and Instagram

A modern day Renaissance man, Henry works in graphic design and branding, and is also a talented rapper, writer and poet. As a well-read individual, he's amassed knowledge and developed his own interesting and informed perspectives on the detriment of human activity on the environment, world politics, religion, and social issues.Emil’s Website and InstagramHenry Spotify, Instagram & Facebook

DR. Nirmal Shah is a celebrated environmentalist and the CEO of Nature Seychelles, an NGO that works to conserve and recover biodiversity through scientific and educational programs. Through Nature Seychelles, Nirmal has played an integral role in coral reef restoration and creation of the world’s first carbon neutral nature reserve. Check out our website for more information  Emil’s Website and Instagram Nature Seychelles Website and Instagram

Alyson Noele Sagala is a writer and traveler turned devoted social impact worker. She splits her time between the Bay Area in California and Nepal where she is the Youth Program Coordinator for Conscious Impact, a nonprofit and NGO that began as a Gorkha earthquake relief effort but has grown significantly and is now rehabilitating entire communities through agriculture, natural building, and youth programs. Emil’s Website and Instagram Alyson’s Website and Instagram

A former marine officer working on ships for nearly 10 years, Praveen Chaturvedi’s chance meeting with a Canadian film crew that came onboard one of the ships changed his life course forever. He moved to Canada and Los Angeles to master his cinematography and storytelling skills. Now an award-winning filmmaker he runs a production company called Moonlight Pictures and is based in Varanasi, India. If you’re interested to check out some more of Praveen’s work you can find it on the Moonlight Pictures website. Emil’s Website and Instagram

Based in the renowned progressive and creative county of Devon, UK, Lou Rainbow is a ceramicist and “maker” by trade who teaches courses on crafts and skills that involve the use of one’s hands. Through her work and her classes, her goal is to inspire people to reconnect with their hands and immerse themselves in the meditative process of creating tangible goods amidst a largely digital age. Emil’s Website and Instagram The Craft Revolution Website & Instagram

Joe Harvey is a fellow filmmaker and good friend who I’ve been sharing a studio in London with for the past couple of years. When I first met Joe he was super keen to grab every opportunity that came his way no matter how big or small, it's been really cool to see where that's got him and he’s now working on productions with much bigger budgets as a director and DP. He’s also in the process of starting up a new production company and agency with his mate Robbie called Raygun, so we chat quite a bit about the processes they’ve been going through to get that off the ground.  Outside of creating video content he makes a lot of time for rollerblading which has also crossed over into his work and from time to time he gets booked to skate around with a camera in his hand and has even been a gimbal operator on ice skates before.  Recently he's been exploring new ways of making money through his rollerblading videos. We chat about VoD (video on demand) which takes the old model of videos you would have bought in a skate shop in the 90’s but now you can buy a download and 100% of the money goes straight to the filmmaker and skater. He was about to head to Barcelona with a pro rollerblader to shoot one of these videos so that should be available on sellfy.com in the next couple of months. It was fun to chat to Joe about everything he’s got going on at the moment, if you’re someone who’s looking to get into film production this will probably be a great podcast for you! Emil’s Website and InstagramJoe's Facebook and Instagram Raygun Website